" To Youth " was adapted from a novel by Liu Tong. It was about the growth of an ordinary college student from campus to the workplace. It also involved love, friendship and other topics. Movies and TV series were adapted from novels. The plot in the movie was different from the description in the novel, but the overall framework and theme were roughly the same. The content in the novel was real, but the adaptation in movies and TV series was also based on fictional stories and plots.